Early-morning bus crash kills 13 in Texas

Early-morning bus crash kills 13 in Texas
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Helicopters make 18 trips taking injured to hospitals, police say

Passengers were pilgrims from Houston, Texas, churches

Blown tire found on bridge; police investigating whether it caused crash

Bus going north on U.S. 75 when it went off a bridge and down an embankment

(CNN) -- A bus crash that may have been caused by a blown tire killed at least 13 people Friday in northern Texas, police said.

Emergency officials work at the scene of a bus crash early Friday in Sherman, Texas.

Many other passengers were injured, some of them seriously, according to authorities and hospital officials.

Fifty-five people were on the bus, part of a Vietnamese church group traveling from Houston to a fair in Carthage, Missouri, east of Joplin, authorities said.

The bus was traveling north on U.S. 75 when it left the highway and went off a bridge and down an embankment at about 12:45 a.m. CT (1:45 a.m. ET), said Lt. Robert Fair, spokesman for the Sherman Police Department. Watch as the fire chief describes crash scene »

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